I am a Asian guy and I want to be ordained in a theravada monestery.My english is mediocre, so please excuse this poor writing.I have definately chose a meditation method which is the Anapanasati in the system of Ven. Buddhadasa.So perhaps it would be ideal if I could be ordained in the Wat Suan Mokkh which doesn't receive foreigners.Does anyone know his successor who could eventually become my teacher?I don't mind in which country he resides, though I prefer a monastery in forest for my ordination and monk life.

I thought that some of the teachers in this forum are real live, breathing, listening, and talking with experience. Please pardon my ignorance as I never had a living teacher with whom I discuss issues face to face.

Thanks.I think it is a bit of mix and match I suppose. ========.................There are also three ways of looking for information from outside the Canonto fill in these gaps. The first is to ask for advice from living people who areproficient in breath meditation. The Canon itself encourages this approach in AN4:94, which advises you to approach a person skilled in insight and tranquilityand to ask for instructions on how to develop those qualities in your own mind.Similarly, AN 9:36 recommends asking those who are skilled in attaining andemerging from both the dimension of neither perception nor non-perceptionand the cessation of perception and feeling for instruction in how to attain andemerge from those dimensions. The same principle applies here.The second way to look outside the Canon for information that will fill in thegaps in the four tetrads is to experiment on your own. The Canon implicitlyadvises this method in passages where it makes distinctions without explainingthem..............The third way to look outside the Canon for information that will fill in thegaps in the four tetrads is to consult books dealing with these topics. Normallythis would include the commentarial literature—such as the Visuddhimagga(Path of Purity) or the commentaries and sub-commentaries on the varioussections of the Canon—but in the case of breath meditation, this literaturediverges widely from what the Canon has to say.

SarathW wrote:Normally this would include the commentarial literature—such as the Visuddhimagga (Path of Purity) or the commentaries and sub-commentaries

Seriously SarathW. Do you think Buddhaghosa knew better? For example, in Visuddhimagga IX, 111 and IX, 113, he gives a totally wrong meaning to the Sankhitta Sutta. BTW, this is not my finding, I came across it here on page 34 under the heading "Disappearance of the True Dhamma".

I'll restart my yearlong meditation retreat on 15th June 2014, hence will not be here.

"Bhikkhus, there are these three things that shine when exposed, not when concealed. What three? (1) The moon. (2) The sun. (3) The Dhamma and discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata."- Anguttara Nikaya, 3.131, Paticchanna Sutta